§ Mr. Dewarasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the number of closures of factories or businesses in Scotland which have involved more than 50 redundancies in each year since 1979; and if he will give the total number of jobs lost in each of these years as a result of these closures.
§ Mr. Malcolm RifkindThe table shows the number of closures confirmed to the Manpower Services Commission as due to occur in Scotland, involving more than 50 redundancies in each year since 1979, and the number of workers involved.
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Closures involving more than fifty redundancies in Scotland from January 1979 to June 1987 Total number of redundant workers involved in these closures Year Number of closures Number of workers 1979 24 3,882 1980 84 12,499 1981 66 13,564 1982 60 7,581 1983 61 8,289 1984 38 3,784 1985 39 5,566 1986 37 5,503 19871 16 1,905 425 64,573 Notes:
1 To June.
(1) Workers not made redundant but transferred to other company plants when their own plant closed are not included in the table.
(2) The 1987 figures are provisional and include only those closures which have been confirmed as due to occur up to June 1987 and where all the redundancies have taken place by that date